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May 30, 2014

At the Movies: Plenty of reasons to see latest ‘X-Men'

By DAVID ROONEY
The Hollywood Reporter

Hugh Jackman travels to the 1970's to save the world in 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past.'

LOS ANGELES — Matthew Vaughn and a superb cast reinvigorated the franchise with cool retro style and globe-trotting intrigue in 2011's “X-Men: First Class.” The series' original director, Bryan Singer, continues that momentum in the vigorously entertaining “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” While it's more dramatically diffuse than the reboot and lacks a definitive villain, the new film is shot through with a stirring reverence for the Marvel Comics characters and their universe. And it ups the stakes by threatening nothing less than the genocide of the mutant population, among them faces old and new.


 
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